A $10M fund expanding Aurelian’s New York venture studio to back globally based, U.S.-domiciled fintech and deeptech infrastructure startups. The methodology was built in the field, not on paper.
The Thesis
The substrate of AI is being rebuilt in a single decade-long window.
The foundational infrastructure layers of AI — compute, settlement, data operations, energy — are positioned for sector-wide adoption with enormous addressable markets. Aurelian has spent years building inside this transition; the fund takes early positions in infrastructure-layer companies before the cascade is visible to institutional capital.
Live opportunities are on the table now — participation is open only to the fund’s first close.
The General Partners
Two operators who have built, shipped, and backed at the infrastructure layer.
Co-founder & GP — Leads Fintech
Founded and led companies across fintech and deeptech AI infrastructure, with a network spanning traditional finance, institutional capital markets, and blockchain. Has been on both sides of the table — building, shipping, and backing. Brings the capital-markets depth and operator instincts to know which infrastructure-layer bets are real before the market does.
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Co-founder & GP — Leads Deeptech
Built at the intersection of emerging technology and company creation, with deep roots in technical communities — developers, engineers, and startup teams. Has taken companies from zero to fundable, and from fundable to growing. Brings the technical lens that turns engineering conviction into business outcomes, and the network that surfaces founders before they are visible to institutional capital.
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LPs invest alongside a team that has already been doing this — not a first-time manager assembling a thesis from the outside.
Aurelian Ventures is a New York–based venture studio: a specialized team of capital-markets and engineering professionals who invest in, incubate, and scale pre-seed and seed-stage technology companies. The studio takes capable teams with exceptional tech from MVP to live product — with operating teams and early traction.
Until now, the studio has deployed its own time and capital. Fund I formalizes that work into an investment vehicle, opening the model to outside partners for the first time.
Live Proof
Markup on our first portfolio company in 10 months — a $30M to $100M valuation, while still pre-institutional.
The Portfolio
Fintech and deeptech AI, at pre-seed and seed — sourced from in-house incubation and external dealflow.
AI-powered platform optimizing financing pathways for first-time homebuyers.
Live BetaInstitutional repo and secured funding rails with automated credit and collateral workflows.
PrototypeAI-native environment for building and deploying production software through agentic workflows.
Active DevelopmentAI-native L1 optimized for HFT and high-performance decentralized agentic trading.
Active DeploymentInvestor intelligence platform aligning companies with strategically relevant capital.
PrototypeFund Terms
$10M, deployed with discipline.
Direct investments into the pre-seed and seed rounds of U.S. technology companies, in exchange for equity or SAFE notes. Every position is sourced and evaluated through Aurelian’s substrate-analysis methodology — targeting the infrastructure layers positioned for sector-wide adoption.
Early liquidity: LP interests may be transferred via secondary sale after a minimum 36-month hold. Aurelian facilitates secondary transfers through a tokenized platform connecting accredited buyers to early-stage fund and SAFE positions — subject to the LPA’s transfer provisions and a willing counterparty. The fund facilitates liquidity; it does not guarantee it.
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Target returns are forward-looking estimates, not guarantees. Past performance, including portfolio markups, is not indicative of future results. This page is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any security. Any offering is made only to accredited investors pursuant to definitive fund documents.